Remove all blank lines in shell or awk. - Shell Programming and Scripting

tushar_tus · #1 (**permalink**) 10-13-2008

Hi there,

I want to trim space between lines in unix.
I have a file named abc.txt with 2,00,000 lines.But useful are only a few. Please tell me how to delete the blank lines.

cfajohnson · #2 (**permalink**) 10-13-2008

Take your pick:

Code:

tr -s '\n' < abc.txt

grep -v "^$" abc.txt

sed '/^$/d' abc.txt

sed '/./!d' abc.txt

awk '/./' abc.txt

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